skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Maybe we can wipe out insects and everything will be just fine," is NOT what I want to base the future of humanity on.

I'm an older guy. In my lifetime, we've killed half the flying insects, half the wild mammals, half the aquatic mammals and in fact half the aquatic creatures bigger than my two fists put together.

And the devastation only continues to accelerate. And your response is just that we can't prove for sure that killing everything else off is bad for us.

https://xkcd.com/1338/

> Hey, I'm a hippie ecologist,

The appropriate response to your cynical screed would have me thrown off this site. For shame.
Thanks! There are a variety of other reasons we decided to make our own rower. So far I'm happy with our decision :)
Android already has a very fine grained permission system that allows blocking such behavior, you simply revoke an apps right to access location data.

So the argument then becomes an appeal to protect less knowledgeable users that would be tricked to enable advanced features for some eye candy. It has some merit; but there has to be some compromise there for advanced users, short of relegating then to APK install with no security updates, like in the Windows days.
Glad to see New York here. Hasn’t been the best year in NY, but the state does largely seem to have its act together.
> So you think they should use some lower Ct number

Everyone should use the same number in all tests. From what I understand, about 20 is a reasonable number which might still result in positives up to a month post-infection. I consider having a standard more important that the specific number chosen. It seems when people go to > 30 it is in a quest to ensure a positive test result.
https://archive.is/Yh01A
I can't wait for a world where economic sanctions are based on sunlight restriction.

Is there any science fiction around this concept?

Also, regarding your questions. It is possible to adjust the earth's temperature with that method, but aerosols seem to be cheaper. Regarding solving global warming. Kind of. There are some trade-off with sunlight reduction. See https://youtu.be/dSu5sXmsur4 for more detailed information.
I'm referring to this paper quote in the wikipedia article:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...

They literally fed the same judges the same wine in multiple glasses and got different scores.
Twitter is so one sided and biased it almost makes me barf.

So many conservative voices in india have been banned my them without reason.
Ask HN: Looking to get in touch with a few doctors or specialists
Hey HN,
Do you have a friend of a friend who is a doctor or a specialist? I would just need 3 min of their time to ask them 2 questions by email.

Thanks so much in advance for your help
I've read this study a while ago, and I think it helped me correct my son's myopia.

When my 5yo kid's eye check came back with "he'll need glasses next year", we started strict "hour+ outside play daily" policy. At his next checkup, he had normal vision. Dr was surprised.
So you take the printout from one machine and insert it into another to be scanned? I agree that would satisfy auditability, since you can look at the printout and make sure it's correct.

Were these Dominion voting machines?
My understanding is that DMCA precludes cracking DRM or even sharing information on how to do the same, so in the case of digital repairs, does that mean DMCA takes precedence over right-to-repair if a particularly stubborn OEM applies DRM to their digital systems?
Ever seen one of those prank videos where someone is in the shower rinsing shampoo off their head, and the prankster leans over the shower wall and squirts a bit more shampoo onto their head, and the prankee gets more confused and annoyed when they keep rinsing "endless" amounts of shampoo that should be done by now?

Buffer overflow and "unsafe" code is like that - the showering person isn't painting or equating, they're expecting an end condition "when the water coming off my head stops having soapy lather and runs clear" which works every time, but is not a "safe" pattern - it assumes no malicious intervention. Someone else can change the surrounding circumstances so that the end condition doesn't happen when it should, and "cause" the rinse routine to keep running for longer and longer.

Buffer overflow attacks are like this, they're expecting to read some data and stop when they get to an end condition; when badly designed an attacker can change something to delay the end condition and cause more data to be read. Inside a computer there are no such things as "separate applications" or "security boundaries" or "program data" or "OS instructions", except that the patterns of numbers are supposed to be interpreted as those things. If a program can write "program data" but cannot give the OS instructions, maybe it can drop some more shampoo on the OS's head and cause the OS to keep reading more and more "OS instructions" only it's now reading past the normally expected end and reading into the "program data" location, and the same numbers which were once "safe program data" are becoming "OS instructions" to be executed by the OS using its OS permissions, which the program had no original rights to do. Breaking the imaginary security boundary by exploiting the assumptions baked into some other code that is running.
If curious see also

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7596922

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870559
Whoah, folks like you use free ad supported services but just don't like the ad part and don't want to pay either.

Interest based advertising is simply optimizing ads for conversion rate. Slow down with all the philosophy.
Awesome to hear! We are pretty young so our focus is in North America at this time, but I'll keep you in mind for when we expand.
alan kay is really interested in scaling

performance considerations aside, having every object (stateless or not) have an ip and run asyncronously (just like on the internet) allows you to scale out and replace the implementation at any time (just like on the internet)

if you are programming in the small (say c with structs) its hard to see the advantage of that, but if your programming system was "done right" you could have the same semantics and get both high performance and high scalability

one thing that alan kay says alot is, the internet is basically the only system to run for decades and still have all its parts changed and yet never taken down for maintanence (outside of living things that is, which is where the biological comparison comes in)

every object having an ip means, basically, the same thing, you could have a system run for decades in a distributed fasion and never need to be taken down for maintanence...

thats the idea as far as i understand it
> A college graduate hopefully will not be making $30k/yr for too long

I think you might be in a well paying profession
we used to this back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I remeber working with MAXCODE at paypal and it was literred with css, business logic and html all in one file. SOunds like facebook is too young to remember.
It's because the city council a while back decriminalized homeless camping, so it's become much more obvious and prevalent in high traffic areas. I can see this for myself if I walk a handful of blocks from where I live and see the new tent city which wasn't there a year ago. They're likely going to reverse this rule since it's not really fixing problem.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/01/25/austin-texas...

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/01/21/homelessness...
Hn is a pretty poor place for unusual opinions, with downvoting comments actually making them physically harder to read and all. It's pretty obnoxious when you have to start manually highlighting text to follow a discussion
If you want to prevent fingerprinting, you need to look at where the identifying bits are coming from. (ex: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/) The IP address provides enough bits to uniquely identify many users, and when combined with just a few more bits, to identify almost anyone.

TOR is one solution here, which you could potentially also describe as "adding forced MitM to every connection". The proposals in https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness/blob/master/near_pa... and https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness/blob/master/willful... have different tradeoffs than TOR, with the "TOR is painfully slow" problem being a big one.

If you have better ideas, though, I would be very interested in reading them!
In this scenario, How does the market maker unload the 80 overvalued shares that they bought to cover their exposure. Who ultimately gets stuck holding the bag when reality kicks in?
Interesting. Yeah it seems like this is the story with a lot of SDE roles. Funny you mention agency work because I've been considering trying that route. Maybe startups offer more pure coding too? But then of course that comes with tradeoffs as well, stress, wearing more hats, less financial stability, etc.
You can use other metrics (eg the NHIP count[0]), but they point to the same thing. Under the NHIP count metric, SF is doing better than most metropolitan areas in the US, but even with huge spending on the problem, the number of homeless people continues to rise year after year. The per-capita count of number of successfully sheltered homeless people in SF (per city resident) is the highest in the country, but even still, I see dozens of completely unsheltered people walking to Bart from my apartment.

Eg Chicago winters are very hard to live through if you don't have stable access to warm housing, and the West coast offers a reprieve from that.

[0] https://sf.curbed.com/2020/3/4/21152501/san-francisco-homele...
Joseph Brodsky: Speech at the Stadium
Faster Horses
> I bring this up because one of the largest factors in myopia development appears to be outdoor light exposure in childhood.

I used to live almost on the equator. Before adolescence, I would spent most of my time outdoors. Very stable weather so windows were open most of the day (and night). There was often direct sunlight even indoors. We would go to the beach every weekend.
I ended up with -5.00 and -5.25

Maybe this would decrease the prevalence, if you are looking at the entire population. But it's not like you, as an individual, will be immune if you just stay outside.
I hadn't heard of this and I'm now flabbergasted. Is it even legal for a service provider to secretly change email contents? It's absolutely outlandish to imagine how someone first thought this could be a good idea, and then found someone capable of executing the plan and apparently agree.
One way to demonstrate nobody had heard of them:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d...
I had to do the same thing with my comment, actually. The deal just fell apart in September apparently.

We'll just have to use two matches.

"15 ways that fire bombing trash ad companies will improve our lives. Number 10 will shock you!"
That's correct, at least in my experience. I could have worked around the every-afternoon decline by carrying a number of glasses in -1.00 to -6.00 and switching among them as needed, or by wearing the ortho-k lenses, which I could tolerate with my eyes closed while I slept, but would have been intolerable while performing any normal activities. Either way, that completely negated my goal of being able to live corrective lens-free during my waking hours.

The other thing that really bugged me was the fact that these lenses could not correct my vision across my entire dilated pupil, and that issue also got worse as the day went on. That resulted in terrible halos around light sources in high contrast situations, such as at night when driving home from work.
Give him a call: https://twitter.com/rglover/status/1339311748726349824

Ralph was in charge at State Farm Arena when those videos were filmed.

Edit: yes, I called him and we spoke back in December for about 30-45 minutes. I originally called about the barriers blocking observers during the recount and then asked about the suitcases as well.
Only if Firefox makes it easy and free to create unlimited addresses and/or disposable address.

I use owlmail.io for hundreds of accounts (major sites included) and haven't had an issue.
Ask HN: Is this upcoming course worth it?
Hi HN, I'm considering learning AI/ML for fun and maybe for career progress.
In the past I did the Andrew Ng Machine Learning course in coursera but haven't really apply it.
I'm considering refreshing my knowledge and doing some practical work in the near future. This course uses Python rather than Octave and seems modern.
Reviews in class central are mixed though. Any opinion?

https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-with-python-from-linear-models-to

https://www.classcentral.com/course/edx-machine-learning-with-python-from-linear-models-to-deep-learning-11483
Meetup: Open-Source Technologies in the Analytics Revolution – Women in Big Data
Sure, but even better is to have a 10 mpg Viper with $2.50/gallon gas, plus a few bucks a year contributed to a political candidate who tells you that the other political candidate wants you to pay $8/gallon.

It's a win for you and a win for that candidate. Classic win-win.
For an example: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3785-Park-Blvd-94306/hom...
About 70 lbs (30 kg), so not difficult to lift or carry with two hands. But it took a real man (my brother-in-law, construction worker) to hold it outstretched like you see in the photo.
Correction: it was hosted on an anonymous FTP server, not a web server. Also, I was one of those people who downloaded every issue, probably with ncftp.
Less than the embarrassment of being the only person on your block without one.
Consider that millions of well-adjusted, middle and upper-class people, with jobs, children, access to doctors, therapists, friends, support networks, and, really everything they could ever wish for... Struggle with, and die from drug and alcohol addiction.

If those people can't stop using drugs, it's hard to expect someone lacking all of those resources to be able to do so.

If you make shelter conditional on sobriety, you're unlikely to get more sobriety.
https://archive.is/2hTAx
"Do I know something about life that could be of help or consequence to you, and if I do, is there a way to pass this information on to you?

The answer to the first question is, I suppose, yes — not so much because a person of my age is entitled to out-fox any of you at existential chess as because he is, in all probability, tired of quite a lot of the stuff you are still aspiring to. (This fatigue alone is something the young should be advised on as an attendant feature of both their eventual success and their failure; this sort of knowledge may enhance their savoring of the former as well as a better weathering of the latter.) As for the second question, I truly wonder."

It is an interesting thought - can we actually learn general principles about life from those that have gone before us? I get that we can learn skills and build on their skills... but how much of life has to be lived to be learned?

The fatigue comment also is somewhat refreshing and somewhat depressing... I'm at most half the age of Brodsky when he is saying this, but is it inevitable that the game/race of life will eventually be tedious? Eventually be something that I no longer want to "compete" in?
Also in bright light your pupils are constricted so depth of field is greater. In dim light your pupils are dialated and depth of field is shallower. Same principle as a camera lens f-stop.

So the perception that you see more clearly in bright outdoor conditions could be true.
The 5% Rule: How small shifts lead to big changes
Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C, Passes
Most patrons of a store are not the store owners’ peers.
I agree that if the electronic voting machine is just helping you print out an easily legible copy of your ballot, which you then verify for correctness and take to another machine to have it scanned for counting, that's a good thing, for the reasons you give. Not only does it help with auditability since the physical record is more standardized, it also probably reduces the error rate of automated counting.

What I'm not sure about is whether that is actually the way it is done for all electronic voting machines.
Lots of reasons. A short list includes:

* Shelters not allowing pets - many would rather remain homeless than give up their dog
* Shelters not allowing drugs
* Social services officers looking too much like cops (many homeless have had bad enough experiences with cops to keep them away from anyone cop-like)
* Spending on 'discomfort' measures (eg deliberately-hostile architecture to discourage people from being homeless)
* Effective mitigations being politically unpopular.

For instance: cold-calling people who have just separated from their spouse to offer counseling substantially reduces the number of people you have to lift out of homelessness at very little cost. However, "free therapy" is a wildly unpopular suggestion in the USA.
Ken Kocienda on Objective-C
Generally speaking, profanity is language that is socially offensive. The reasons that the language might be offensive depends on the social makeup and norms of the group you're referring to. Sometimes those norms are driven by religion, sometimes they are driven by other factors, and sometimes it is a combination of reasons.

For example, you can find instances of social groups that:

1. are not religious, but recognize the concept of profanity.

2. do not recognize some slurs as profane.

3. are religious, but do not recognize the same profanity as other social groups that belong to the same religion.
Except most of us won't dance in the streets in perfect joy, and probably won't ever see it in our lifetime or even in the entirety of humanity's existence.

In lieu of that, I prefer my shipping delivered in 2 days vs. a month.
Apple Advises Against Putting the iPhone 12 Too Close to Pacemakers
The author is basically quoting the community here rather than actually diagnosing anyone with autism. The subreddit usually calls themselves some variation of "autist," "autistic," or "retard."
> Browsers would need a way to form clusters that are both useful and private >The browser uses machine learning algorithms to develop a cohort based on the sites that an individual visits.

How would FLoC audience targeting work in non-chrome browsers? DV360 users deliver ads on all browsers, no?
The UK has paper-only ballots and none of this stuff is a problem. (There are no "hanging chads" because ballots are marked by the voter with a pen or pencil on a piece of paper). The polls close at 10pm, the votes are counted overnight by volunteers, and the winner takes office the next morning. It always baffles me that the US system is so complicated.
Harvard, Yale, Brown Endowments Have Been Buying Bitcoin for at Least a Year
I feel like a lot of the concerns are not applicable by the fact that unlike a real life hoard, it's really really easy to find almost anything digitally regardless of how it's organized.

You can totally spend a lot of time making sure stuff is categorized in the right folders. Anyone who has had an illicit mp3 collection has probably spent a ton of time doing just that. However, that's less relevant today, and for documents and pictures, I can basically just chuck them in a folder then search by date, location, or even person in them without a ton of effort. Full text searches are fast at the "these are my documents" scale, and the price of storage is cheaper than a nice meal at a restaurant per year.

I'm able to keep almost everything, store it for pennies a week, find what I want instantly, and spend almost no time doing any of that. I feel like going through a decluttering would spark less joy than tossing everything into a folder and going on with my life.
I believe that's still under active research. If this is a factor, my money is more on "your eyes will be focusing more at infinity" rather then low light levels.
GME (34 funny gamestop pictures we can relate with)
The website is built with Tailwind UI. Super easy to use their templates and just customize a little bit.
I'm curious what the directionality of the mapping means. I entered the name of a certain mangaka I like and the few western authors who showed up were all up and to the right. If this is meaningful in some way, it is not made clear on the site.
This is right, there's now a certain % of people that just can't be trusted in the US, it's easier to trust no one.
Programming in Five Easy Pieces
> There are no "hanging chads" because ballots are marked by the voter with a pen or pencil on a piece of paper

This is how it is done in many US jurisdictions as well (including all the ones I have voted in).
Don't worry, every time consensus changes it will be revealed that we were always at war with Eastasia to begin with, I'm sure.
What kind of digital ocean plan did you get for your setup ? I've been thinking about putting together something similar but the price to get a reasonable amount of space seemed prohibitive.
Twitter 'Industry' Bullshit
The issue had to do with mail in votes. Those are not viewed by the vote caster when the machine processes them.
There are multiple reasons, from demisablility to BOM cost and also just that the tech wasn’t quite ready at first and they wanted to launch ASAP to get that minimum viable product up and running (besides their FCC licenses have a time limit for deployment... if they don’t deploy their network fast enough, they can lose access to the spectrum they want to use). They also wanted to be able to bid for broadband subsidies, etc.

Lots of good reasons they just launched before the laser links were ready. Also, they don’t necessarily need them except for really, REALLY remote customers (ie a minority), so they can sprinkle in lasers into their constellation as they become available.
What distraction means here is still unclear.

I for one would much rather fill my life with pleasant distractions, instead of a Spartan utopian lifestyle that some other people tries to sell me as 'good life'.
This will absolutely not, under any circumstances, "correct" myopia. You can only slow its progression, with techniques like:

- Pupil dilating eye drops

- Wearing corrective lenses as little as possible

- Wearing glasses with fogged edges/rims

- Reducing the time you hold objects close to your face

The major factor behind all of this is to reduce the over focusing of light on your retina and fovea. The more light that focuses back there, the more your eye is told to grow longer.

Every parent should know this and how it works. And so should your ophthalmologist, most of which are clueless.

You can't, in any way, undo this growth once it's happened. This is terrible reporting.
The police had the information and ignored it because no one takes white, right wing, terrorism seriously. You can't fix that with more data. At best it's a side show to excuse police being unwilling to do their jobs. At worst, it's all of that plus a cynical power grab. Either way, we shouldn't accept it.
Chances are that you spend more time than that feeling resentful that the big bad strangers on the internet don’t feel even a pang of shame just because you told them to.
The inflation adjusted cost of buying a house today is actually cheaper per square foot than it was in 1980, and that's before you factor in the 14% mortgage rates of the era.
2009 had the main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943185

I thought there were others but maybe not? Single-comment threads from 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11007757

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8773298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4903622

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061955
Thanks, DanG. Author here. I happen to be reading HN right now if anyone has questions about cesium clocks or using them to demonstrate relativistic effects. This is just a DIY hobby of mine.